CAT 2024 Sentence Correction and Error Correction — Previous Year Question
Year
CAT 2024
Section
Verbal
Topic
Sentence Correction and Error Correction
Difficulty
Medium
Question
Slot-1
Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
"The details of the incident was not known."
Assertion (A) : The above sentence does not adhere to the requirement of subject-verb agreement and hence it is a grammatically incorrect sentence.
Reason (R) : In "Noun + Preposition + Noun" constructions, the verb agrees with the number and person of the noun preceeding the preposition.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is not the correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(A) is true but (R) is false.
(A) is false but (R) is true.
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